Brilliant!
The weird weather shifts don’t scare me. Really, they don’t! :)
“Ditch the coat and grab the shades… Sunday and the beginning of next
week are looking rainy, so get out there while you can.”
Tune of “On The Sunny Side of the Street” (if you sing it like Tony Bennett does, it’ll feel OK)
Ditch the coat and grab the shades
But don’t think the cold has passed now.
Sunday brings defeat
On the other side of the heat.
Take it in before it fades
You’ve been warned that spring won’t last now.
Weather is less sweet
On the other side of the heat.
Two days to break out the shorts
Lemonade by the quarts
But heed the reports:
Relief, pal,
Is brief, pal.
Though for now it’s muscle tees,
Soon it’s scarf with an umbrella
High will turn downbeat
On the other, other side of the heat.
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Freddie’s a marvel who eloquently waxes
Even though buried by mountains of taxes!
Thanks Freddie—cheers!
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Oily Cart....tee hee...a play on the famed British Gilbert and Sullivan operetta company (now sadly defunct)...
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Sandi, regarding "oily Cart" - To show my current life’s philosophy that everything fun and good is worth celebrating and singing about: I searched “Oily Cart” from when they did their celebrated short family “Winter’s Tale,” and I guess I must have had post-tax time free time last year, though I don't know if anyone saw this then!
Tune of Brush Up Your Shakespeare
The Winter’s Tale is a long-ish play
It takes the better part of the day
But since I’m short on attention span
I’ll bring my kid ‘cause I have a plan.
There’s a group called Oily Cart
And they work their hocus pocus
Kid and grown-up both feel smart
‘Cause they keep high points in focus
Cut up your Shakespeare
Not just for my kid
Cut up your Shakespeare
We adults are thrilled you did
Cut Macbeth and just give us the witches
The short run time will bring your group riches.
Since the full Hamlet makes us unwilling
Cut those speeches and you’ll make a killing.
If you do Caesar and don't stab Ju-li-us
You’ll be quick and won’t suffer unruly us
Cut up your Shakespeare
Feel our spending power, if it’s just an hour.
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